Seven new iPad apps to know about

Last month, we launched a brand-new feature called “App of the Week,” in which our editors highlight a new educational app every week. Here are the first seven apps we’ve featured.

All of these apps are for Apple’s iPad, but in the future we’ll mix in coverage of Android apps as well.

Do you have any suggestions for educational apps of your own that you’d like to share with readers? Tell us about them in the comments section below.

Name: Voice Dream Reader – Text to Speech

What is it? An iOS text-to-speech application that is giving students a more effective way to access text. Apple’s iOS text-to-speech features don’t provide a seamless listening experience. Students using iPads can’t make their devices read out loud an entire novel with the tap of a finger; pause, rewind or fast forward when using voice over to take a test; or easily jump to different sections of the text. Voice Dream Reader allows for these functions and offers a number of other text-to-speech customizations.